JETRO Invest Japan Report 2023
Chapter3. Recent Government Measures Section5. Project to Accelerate Biomanufacturing Revolution

In the field of biomanufacturing, the technology is expected to be used widely and revolutionarily, not only in pharmaceuticals and foods, which are being pioneered, but also in a wide variety of industries including chemicals, materials, textiles, and fuels.

In particular, with the generic modification technology, etc., it is attracting attention as a technology for enhancing the substance productivity that microorganisms originally have, acquiring the productivity of target substances, or acquiring target substances through enzymatic degradation, etc. It was positioned as one of the pillars of the science, technology, and innovation in the Grand Design and Action Plan for a New Form of Capitalism (approved by the Cabinet in June 2022).

In order to build an innovative value chain with a variety of raw materials and products as an exit, by actively conducting necessary technological and social system demonstrations, it is expected to become the industrial foundation for the next generation and the core of Japan's industrial competitiveness, as a sustainable manufacturing alternative to the conventional manufacturing process that uses fossil resources as raw materials.

This project will implement technology development and system demonstration for the acquisition of biomanufacturing raw materials, as well as cultivation of platformers for microorganism modification, etc., that hold the source of added value for biomanufacturing, development of improvement technologies for microorganism, etc., and development and demonstration of manufacturing technology for mass production.

A total budget of about 300 billion yen was allocated for the project period from FY2023 to FY2032.